EILEEN MYLES
Poet, novelist, performer and art journalist Eileen Myles is guided by their approach to the concept of time. “Working in my own time,” Myles says, is the aspect of their work that brings the greatest reward. “Time shapes everything, and I celebrate in my life and my work being weird and on my own timetable. [I] have to be brave in the face of other people’s time too.” Myles seems to have made the utmost use of creative time, having authored nineteen books, including “I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems,” “Snowflake/different streets,” “The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art,” “Inferno (A Poet’s Novel)” and a 2015 reissue of their iconic autobiographical novel, “Chelsea Girls.” Myles has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in non-fiction, an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers grant, four Lambda Literary Book Awards and the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America. This year, Myles received a Creative Capital grant, as well as the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing. Splitting their time between NYC and Marfa, Texas, Myles currently teaches at NYU and Naropa University. –SLO
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